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SUBMITTER: Furushita M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1214673 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Furushita Manabu M Okamoto Akira A Maeda Toshimichi T Ohta Michio M Shiba Tsuneo T
Applied and environmental microbiology 20050901 9
Six strains of multidrug-resistant Stenotrophomonas maltophilia were isolated from cultured yellowtail. The strains were divided into two clusters based on the 16S rRNA genes, and all of them contained L1 metallo-beta-lactamase and L2 beta-lactamase genes. Differences in the intercluster divergence between the lactamase genes suggest that horizontal transfer of the genes occurred. ...[more]